[Xymon] Plagued by purple

[Novosielski, Ryan]

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How about that -- historical knowledge from a mailing list!

On 10/16/2012 01:43 PM, James Wade wrote:
> I was one of the original installers of this installation. In this
> case, we modified scripts and ran the client separately from
> $XYMONHOME/client
> 
> Start the client by changing to the $XYMONHOME/client directory
> and running, runclient.sh start
> 
> That should resolve your issue.
> 
> James
> 
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Benjamin P. August 
> <baugust at stanford.edu <mailto:baugust at stanford.edu>> wrote:
> 
> It looks like the green tests are all standard Xymon tests and the 
> purple ones might be external scripts in client/ext/ in the Xymon 
> (or Hobbit) home directory. Check the client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
> on any of the purple-plagued clients and see if any of the purple
> tests are mentioned.
> 
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> 
*From: *"David Mills (IS)" <David.Mills at ngc.com
> <mailto:David.Mills at ngc.com>> *To: *xymon at xymon.com
> <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> *Sent: *Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:48:46
> AM *Subject: *Re: [Xymon] Plagued by purple
> 
>> *Josh Luthman* _josh at imaginenetworksllc.com _
> <mailto:xymon%40xymon.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BXymon%5D%20Plagued%20by%20purple&In-Reply-To=%3CCAN9qwJ-iF_r5AsQx5HFnpgK%3DPDnr0qtt1m%3DxnGjKdnVAFGwzSA%40mail.gmail.com%3E>
>
> 
> 
>> Either the server isn't gathering it or the clients aren't
>> sending the data.
>> 
>> The raid script that I have is sent by the client.
> 
> Thanks, Josh, but can you point out where I can check to see which 
> of those options is my likely culprit?
> 
> Also, don’t quite follow your comment about your “raid script”.
> What raid script?
> 
> Sorry!
> 
> David
> 
>> On Oct 16, 2012 2:08 AM, "Mills, David (IS)" <David.Mills at
>> ngc.com <http://ngc.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> All .
>>> 
>>> Am fairly new to Xymon and apologize if this is documented
>>> somewhere and I missed it.
>>> 
>>> I have inherited a Xymon server (4.3.3 on Solaris 10) which
>>> shows itself as having about half its tests as .purple., the
>>> other half as green. As far as I can tell, everything.s running
>>> just fine. It seems to be a simple data refresh problem of some
>>> sort, but haven.t been able prove my hunch.
>>> 
>>> The problem started after  a reboot of the server. Everything
>>> came up OK, except for the following list of .missing. tests:
>>> 
>>> Purple Tests: iostat   iostat2  mem2 meta  nfs  prtdiag   raid
>>> sar  tm  zones
>>> 
>>> Green Tests: bbd      conn     cpu      disk     http     info
>>> memory   msgs ntp       ports    procs   ssh  trends
>>> 
>>> I.ve restarted the server: (.$xymon_home/xymon.sh restart.) and
>>> tried to find something in the logs, but am not making ground
>>> on this fast enough.
>>> 
>>> Help?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> david
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *David Mills* Systems Administrator */Northrop
> Grumman/* 512-595-1238 <tel:512-595-1238> david.mills at ngc.com
> <mailto:david.mills at ngc.com>
> 
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